This week I have revived 2010 budget laptop with FreeBSD. It works pretty nicely, web browser handles multiple tabs of modern web, thunderbird works and to code i use vi/vim anyways.
The only thing I have problems with is graphics support. Right now i have 1024x768 resolution and i can't change it to higher. I have installed only packages: Xorg, meta-lxde, firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice, drm-kmod
This laptop has an exotic mix of Intel Core i3 350M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v.
I have read section on Xorg configuration of documentation. Here are my experiments:
- adding kld_list="i915kms" to /etc/rc.conf have significantly changed my startup text mode resolution to higher. Unfortunately GUI crashed on "startx", with fatal errors
- adding "intel" to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-intel.conf results in: display not found (if I remember correctly)
- adding "radeon" to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-radeon.conf results in: display not found (if I remember correctly)
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I think it might be something with double graphics cards, setup of which handbook doesn't explain. And also I have tried playing around with adding Bus_ID "PCI:" to configs but also without positive effect.
Additional note, my startx user is added to "video" and "wheel" groups.
The only thing I have problems with is graphics support. Right now i have 1024x768 resolution and i can't change it to higher. I have installed only packages: Xorg, meta-lxde, firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice, drm-kmod
This laptop has an exotic mix of Intel Core i3 350M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v.
I have read section on Xorg configuration of documentation. Here are my experiments:
- adding kld_list="i915kms" to /etc/rc.conf have significantly changed my startup text mode resolution to higher. Unfortunately GUI crashed on "startx", with fatal errors
- adding "intel" to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-intel.conf results in: display not found (if I remember correctly)
- adding "radeon" to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-radeon.conf results in: display not found (if I remember correctly)
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I think it might be something with double graphics cards, setup of which handbook doesn't explain. And also I have tried playing around with adding Bus_ID "PCI:" to configs but also without positive effect.
Additional note, my startx user is added to "video" and "wheel" groups.